ANSWER: This is not permissible.
Read moreANSWER: Yes, he must pay the zakat if it reaches or is more than the nisab. He must get his back up from the couch and work in halal, even if it’s a janitor’s job and earn instead of putting such mental blocks and hurdles in his life!
Read moreANSWER: Of course you are sinful and accountable for that.
Read moreANSWER: If there is a toilet in that room, you should enter with your left foot.
Read moreANSWER: No problem in this as long as the means that you take to achieve this are halal. In fact Islam encourages good life and there are many duas in Qur’an and hadiths which talk about good life in this dunya.
Read moreANSWER: The concept of gifting a prayer mat is not an Islamic concept as Allah has made the earth a place for prayer wherever we are. Thinking that we need a prayer mat to pray is an innovation. One can use it only when the ground is impure or dirty.
Read moreANSWER: If you found it in a land that doesn’t belong to anyone and it has the marks of pre-Islamic period, it is yours after giving 20% of it to the poor and needy Muslims. This is called as rikaz.
Read moreANSWER: That’s his choice. However, stingy people are by nature stingy and this is in their DNA and they won’t be among the successful on the day of Judgment! No Muslim who has his own flesh and blood suffering because of a tiny loan would hesitate to rush to his rescue if he has the […]
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